[mark502inf]

Its one week suspension for carwheels, two weeks for playing dodgeball, and the whole semester for reading the Bible.

[notpoliticallycorewrecked]

I would like to weight in on this issue:

Last year I taught a variety of subjects in the upper grades at a private Christian school. We had a few students at the school that were into the gymnastic stunts.

The problems weren't that they were doing handstands and cartwheels. The problem was that they were doing them indoors in the classrooms or in areas where there were crowds of students. On several occasions they hit another student with their feet or hands at a high rate of speed that is required to preform such stunts.

I had one student hit me in mouth with his foot while he was doing a cartwheel in PE. We were playing baseball at the time not doing gymnastics, so it was an inappropriate maneuver. I was next to the group of students that were waiting their turn at bat. I actually encouraged them to do their stunts during lunch hour, but out in the open field area without a large amount of students around. But they didn't want to do it out in the open areas, not they wanted to preform by the lockers or in the hallways to get the attention of everyone. This proved my point that they were preforming these stunts not for the sake of exercise, but to show off.

[Oztrich Boy]

other children could get hurt trying to imitate Deirdre, who has been doing gymnastics for five years.

"Would you jump off a cliff if Deirdre did?"

[DameAutour]

Kids are suspended far too easily nowadays. Don't they have other punishments?

[TLI]

"Deirdre Faegre was suspended for a week after repeatedly disobeying school officials who told her not to perform gymnastic stunts during lunchtime."

Did they tell her it was ok any other time? Did anyone state when the evil "stunts" could be performed? Or is this just a simple case of those that can't attempting to ban the enjoyable activities of those that can?

[Cobra64]

This mentality is pathetic. I went to boarding school in Litchfield, CT. We used to take sides on the hockey rink and throw stones at each other. Over the Summer, my brothers and I used to have BB gun fights.

My wife used to cut holes in the ice in MN with a chain-saw to go ice fishing when she was 12! I could go on, but I think I've made my point. Today we're living with a bunch of panty-waste-limp-wristed cowards. /rant

[LibertyRocks]

I can't believe I'm reading this....

If this were the rule of conduct back in our Catholic Grammar School almost every single girl in our class of 75 would have been suspended... AND we were doing them on our CONCRETE PARKING LOT playground!

And all this in LA??? I think they've got more serious problems on their hands than a cartwheel-turner!

Yet another reason we choose to homeschool...

[Major_Risktaker]

Deirdre Faegre was suspended for a week after repeatedly disobeying school officials who told her not to perform gymnastic stunts during lunchtime.

This entire country is becoming a POLICE STATE!

This is the game we played
every morning and lunch time in
7th and 8th grade at St. Theresa Academy.

"BUCKBUCK"

The guys that lost would get a
penalty finger snap to the nuts or Bachi Balls.

Rules: Anything goes except a straight
elbow or a knee into the back.
Everyone broke the rules.

The Nuns never said anything!

We had an amazing amount of freedom as kids.

Today some kids are fat couch potato,
x-box, druged down, wimpy, uncreative robotrons.

[Fruitbat]

She was probably just excited to get an education...

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

Expected The Onion or Scrappleface...

[Ptarmigan]

Another PC insanity! What has this world come to??????? Makes me wish that we need death squads to get rid of the PC CommuNazis vermins.

[Dan from Michigan]

Ridiculous. This makes the "No Fun League"(NFL) look outright lenient.

There's nothing worse than a bunch of power hungry mid level bureaucrats - and school administrators are oftentimes among the worst of them.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

The exact same thing happened to the child of a friend of mine who was into skeet shooting. Damned public school authorities!

[Dan from Michigan]

Deirdre Faegre was suspended for a week

BTW - I got 3 days once for losing my temper, crumpling up a detention slip saying "F@#k this" too loud indirectly at a teacher in response to a BS detention. If I wasn't 18(and near graduation) at the time, I would have gotten grounded bigtime from my parents for that.

Doing gymnastics is twice as worse than that....riiiiiiight.

[marshmallow]

There are really two issues rolled into one here, and various posters have addressed one or the other individually. Both are valid.

The first is the politically correct, half-baked educational theories which have turned public schools into academies of mediocrity and lunacy. The second is the rebellious, disrespectful, authority-hating adolescent swill that we are currently nurturing in our homes and schools and their dysfunctional parents. In summary, I agree with those who say the school is stupid and with those who say the kid is a brat and her parents need a good shaking.

My wife works in a public Middle School here in Georgia and I can't really find the words to describe the horror I feel at some of what she tells me each day. There is an insistence on certain idiotic, politically correct rules, contravention of which will get you suspended. At the same time, really important issues such as good manners, good behavior in class, respectful behavior toward teachers, no foul language etc., are glossed over. Doing gymnastics would be one such example of these idiotic rules.

With respect to enforcing obedience in the children, it has to be said that the parents are a major part of the problem. Almost without exception, any rebuke or punishment enforced on the child will invariably bring irate parents to the school using language and behavior which makes the child's pale into insignificance. All furious that their little angel has been singled out for chastisement. My wife has recounted incidents where the parents themselves have been arrested by the Public Safety Officer in the school and taken away in a paddy wagon to the local lock-up, such was their conduct and threatening behavior toward the Principal or her deputy. Many teachers and principals simply give up.

So a pox on this school described in the article and the kid and her crazy parents.

[2Jedismom]

I think this is her daddy...Leland!

He's a Libertarian, apparently...Click here

[zook]

Insane.

[Samwise]

ping!

I could really get in trouble on this thread. ;^)

[UsnDadof8]

"a danger to herself and others" bump ;)

[Slainte]

http://www.sanjose-edison.com/

Principal-
Dr. Denise Patton
626.856.1693 x4001
dpatton@sanjose.edisonschools.com

[Baby Bear]

Here is the link from another source:11-Year-Old Girl Suspended For 'Dangerous' Cartwheels At School

And a quote from the source: They said gymnastics on the playground creates an unsafe situation.

My word, I would have been suspended for a month doing roundoff-back handspring-back aerial flips competitions with a bunch of kids today. Oh and I never took gymnastics to learn it, so that is doubly dangerous...yeesh...